# C_2007204EN.01001101.xml

| 1.9.2007 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 204/11 |
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1.9.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 204/11

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Call for expressions of interest in membership of the Scientific Committee of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

(2007/C 204/07)

This call is addressed to scientists who wish to be considered for membership of the EMCDDA Scientific Committee.

The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), based in Lisbon, Portugal, was established to provide the European Community and its Member States with ‘factual, objective, reliable and comparable information at European level concerning drugs and drug addiction and their consequences’ (1). For additional information on the EMCDDA, please see:

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http://www.emcdda.europa.eu

EMCDDA Scientific Committee

The EMCDDA Scientific Committee is set up by Article 13 of the Regulation (EC) No 1920/2006 on the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (recast) (1).

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The Scientific Committee shall consist of at most 15 well-known scientists appointed by the Management Board in view of their scientific excellence and their independence. The members of the Scientific Committee shall be appointed in a personal capacity and shall give their opinions completely independently of the Member States and the Community Institutions. They shall cover the most relevant scientific fields linked to the problems of drugs and drug addiction:

| — | epidemiology, |
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epidemiology,

| — | best practice and interventions, |
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best practice and interventions,

| — | political and institutional framework, |
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political and institutional framework,

| — | legal and criminal justice issues, |
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legal and criminal justice issues,

| — | economic issues, |
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economic issues,

| — | methodological issues, |
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methodological issues,

| — | risk assessment of psychoactive substances and basic research. |
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risk assessment of psychoactive substances and basic research.

Further information and application forms are available in English from the EMCDDA website: http://www.emcdda.europa.eu. Applications shall be submitted via e-mail or by registered post to the address below. Forms for paper application are equally available by post from the same address:

| EMCDDA |
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| Att.: Scientific Committee selection |
| Rua da Cruz de Santa Apolónia, 23-25 |
| P-1149-045 Lisboa |

EMCDDA

Att.: Scientific Committee selection

Rua da Cruz de Santa Apolónia, 23-25

P-1149-045 Lisboa

Closing date

The closing date for submission of the applications is: 12.10.2007 at 17.00, Lisbon time (date and hour of postmark, or e-mail count). The EMCDDA reserves the right to disregard any expressions of interest sent after that date.

12.10.2007 at 17.00

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(1)  Regulation (EC) No 1920/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (recast) (OJ L 376, 27.12.2006, p. 1). See:

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http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.Content&nNodeID=382&sLanguageISO=EN

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